Sesame Street | |||||
Buffy arrives on Sesame Street, and makes friends with Oscar | |||||
Air date | December 9, 1975 | ||||
Season | Season 7 (1975-1976) | ||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Buffy walks down the length of Sesame Street wearing a backpack. She takes her time, stopping to push a kid on the tire swing in the yard and taking in her surroundings. She stops to rest at Oscar's trash can, leaning on some crates, when Oscar the Grouch pops up demanding to know what's going on. Buffy explains that she doesn't have any friends around here, she likes being alone sometimes, and that she was a rotten kid. Oscar tells her they could be pals and introduces himself, extending a hand with an unwelcome to Sesame Street. | |
Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie and Cookie Monster discuss hope. Ernie has something in a brown paper bag, and asks Cookie Monster what he hopes it is. Cookie Monster hopes that it is a cookie. It turns out that Ernie has ten cookies in the bag. (First: Episode 0233) | |
Film | A girl gets a pair of earrings, intercut with shots of other people's earrings. (First: Episode 0422) | |
Cartoon | A scientist builds a robot that has real feelings, such as sad, happy and afraid. (First: Episode 0769) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit asks Trey if he's seen a letter Q before. At first Trey denies it, but eventually draws one in the air with his finger. (First: Episode 0440) | |
Film | Luis announces "And now, the octopus!" Music: "Pomp and Circumstance" (First: Episode 0291) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit the Frog, Shola and Fannie have just finished watching the previous film. Shola hugs Kermit, and he comments, "She learned a lot from the octopus ... how to squeeze!" (First: Episode 0534) | |
SCENE 2 | Oscar is telling Buffy about when he was a kid (explaining that baby Grouches are called brats) when Maria comes by and wants to meet his new friend. Oscar reluctantly introduces them just as Gordon and Bob come by. Buffy explains she's never been here before, but it's one of the (ahem) friendliest places she's ever been. Oscar is appalled that his partly grouchy friend would be accommodating to a friendly place and says she can forget about being pals. Gordon, Bob, and Maria laugh at Oscar's usual behavior and give Buffy a proper welcome. | |
Cartoon | Hypnotic "Q" rainbow (First: Episode 0440) | |
Cartoon | "Poverty Q": A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself. Animation by Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0048) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover demonstrates high and low by asking Heather to scratch his back. (First: Episode 0732) | |
Film | "Three Song (Song of Three)." (First: Episode 0001) | |
Cartoon | Donnie Budd sings about three trios of animals who live on a fat lady's lap. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0299) | |
Cartoon | Two circles demonstrate "next to" and "away from." (First: Episode 0644) | |
Film | Detective Fred (Joe Raposo) is sent by his boss (Danny Epstein) to locate the number 20. Throughout the office and on the streets of New York, Fred tracks down the numbers 11 through 18 in numerical order by spying his surroundings. When he finds his way to Apartment 19, he discovers it is occupied by a gorilla, who leads him directly to the elusive 20. (First: Episode 0277) | |
SCENE 3 | Everyone gathers around Buffy who explains that she's just come back from visiting her parents at the Cree reservation in Canada, and she's passing through the city to visit some friends from another tribe who have since moved on. As she unpacks her bag, she describes a number of items made by different Indian tribes including Cree (her tribe), Sioux, Navaho, Iroquois, and Nez Perce. Maria explains that Puerto Rico was once home to the Taíno people. One kid offers that his sister read him an Indian story once and Buffy asks if it was a real story or a fairy tale; she's real. | |
Muppets | Kermit explains how a weather calendar works, with Cookie Monster's assistance. Kermit tells Cookie to place them on the right spot on the weather map. After completing the weather map, Cookie decides to produce sounds of the weather. He pours the contents of a watering can for rain, for wind, blew a few blows of air for wind. Kermit asks what sound sunshine makes, Cookie Monster devours the sun symbol. (First: Episode 0619) | |
Cartoon | Q for Quiet Artist: John Korty (First: Episode 0441) | |
Cartoon | The Typewriter: "Q," Quiet (First: Episode 0768) | |
Celebrity | The Pointer Sisters sing the "Swingin' Alphabet." (First: Episode 0773) | |
Film | A turtle swims in a tank. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0283) | |
Film | A hand tickles another with a feather. When it tries again, the ticklish hand growls and frightens the other away. (First: Episode 0699) | |
SCENE 4 | On the steps of 123 Sesame Street, Buffy plays guitar and sings "Dog Song" for Gordon, Bob, and the kids. | |
Cartoon | At night, a man's toothy smile is shown as he hears the sounds of tools being used ... to demolish his house. Artist: Bill Davis (First: Episode 0796) | |
Muppets | The Miss Muffet Play (First: Episode 0280) | |
Cartoon | A boy tries to count to twenty while playing with a paddleball, but gets interrupted by a bird. (First: Episode 0152) | |
Cartoon | Krazy Kat proves his love for Ignatz Mouse with a block of cheese. Ignatz carves it into the word "LOVE." (First: Episode 0615) | |
Cast | In speed-induced footage, Maria, Luis and David put together a letter Q. (First: Episode 0467) | |
Cartoon | Q -- that funny looking thing. (First: Episode 0131) | |
SCENE 5 | Gordon, Bob, and the kids sing "Here Are Some Things" with a sewing needle, a spool of thread, a sewing machine, scissors, and a stick of butter. | |
SCENE 5 cont'd |
They move over to a bench in front of the Fix-It Shop to join Maria and Buffy who ask the kids to identify items that are made by Indians: a moccasin, a turquoise bracelet, a cob of corn, a potato, and a bar of chocolate. | |
Film | Marching Band #3 (First: Episode 0517) | |
Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot invents a complicated machine, to test Cookie Monster's problem-solving abilities. Cookie Monster needs to pull the string to raise the glass cover off the plateful of cookies at the other end -- but when he lets go to retrieve the cookies, the cover will fall again. Herbert hears Cookie Monster approaching, and hides to observe him. Cookie investigates the machine for a moment, then gets the cookies by karate-chopping the glass cover. (First: Episode 0132) | |
Cartoon | Willie Wimple: Tree Destruction Artist: Abe Levitow (First: Episode 0516) | |
Cartoon | A story about an ape and a bird, using the letter A. Artist: John Paratore (First: Episode 0158) | |
Song | Sesame Street Animal Films: Joe Raposo sings George Gershwin's "Funny Face." (First: Episode 0006) | |
Cartoon | A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is. (First: Episode 0006) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: A for Ape (First: Episode 0006) | |
Muppets | Benny and his boss have been waiting for Lefty for a long time. Benny wonders how they will know when it's Lefty at the door, so he reminds him that Lefty will knock three times - their secret knock to enter their hideout. Lefty forgets the number, and has to be hinted from his boss what the number of knocks are to gain access, finally giving the correct amount. When they let him in, the boss reprimands him for his poor memory, and warns him that he'll be in big trouble if he forgets again. To test his memory, the boss and Benny lock themselves out, telling him not to let them in until they give the secret knock. Despite the boss' warning, Lefty forgets once again, and finally having enough, he fearfully runs out the back door, leaving the other two stranded outside yelling, "Let us in!" as they angrily pound on the door trying to get in. (First: Episode 0722) | |
Cartoon | A boy tries to count to twenty while playing with a paddleball, but gets interrupted by a bird. (repeat) | |
Animation | Apples fall from a tree, which bothers the hill beneath it, as Irish music underscores the segment. Artist: Etienne Delessert (First: Episode 0628) | |
SCENE 6 | Buffy straps on her backpack and begins to head out west to catch up with those friends she was looking for. Gordon, Maria, and Bob are sad she can't stay any longer, but Buffy invites them out to New Mexico to meet up sometime. Maria doubts they'll ever make it out there (but they do in a multi-episode arc later in the season, crossing paths with Buffy in Episode 0814). Buffy heads down the street waving goodbye to her new friends. | |
Cartoon | A man walks by different people who demonstrate what love is. (First: Episode 0292) | |
SCENE 7 | Maria and Bob play in the yard with the kids while Gordon announces the sponsors. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Oscar and the Count hold the Sesame Street sign, while Bob holds the CTW sign. |
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